"Oilmen to the Rescue: Great Northern Railway. When this tank car jumped the track during switching operations in Tioga, N.D. it blocked traffic on the Main Street of that then new oil city. But not for long. Someone called the Lawrence...

Buildings with fire and black smoke billowing into the sky. A bursting compressed gas tank gives sudden blaze of flame, a few minutes following the start of the fire at the rear of Valley Motor Supply Company buildings. Snow covers the ground and...

A man is driving a tractor which is towing a trailer with a tank with a young man inside it. Both parts of the float read "Co-op" Williston, N.D. The tractor is passing spectators who have gathered on Main Street to watch the Williston Band Day...

An oddity in the petroleum industry of North Dakota was this Madison producer pictured above which in 1958 was the only marine and offshore drilling operation for thousands of miles. Owned at that time by Investors Oil Inc., the well is...

An oddity in the petroleum industry of North Dakota was this Madison producer pictured above which in 1958 was the only marine and offshore drilling operation for thousands of miles. Owned at that time by Investors Oil Inc., the well is...

An oddity in the petroleum industry of North Dakota was this Madison producer pictured above which in 1958 was the only marine and offshore drilling operation for thousands of miles. Owned at that time by Investors Oil Inc., the well is...

An oddity in the petroleum industry of North Dakota was this Madison producer pictured above which in 1958 was the only marine and offshore drilling operation for thousands of miles. Owned at that time by Investors Oil Inc., the well is...

An oddity in the petroleum industry of North Dakota was this Madison producer pictured above which in 1958 was the only marine and offshore drilling operation for thousands of miles. Owned at that time by Investors Oil Inc., the well is...

Ole Anderson poses proudly in the driver's seat of his grand old Maxwell touring car. The 1908 model car, which today would be regarded as a "real blue-ribbon classic" was built in Terrytown, N.Y. As can be seen, it has a right-hand drive and is...